Vehemently disagree. Gascoigne had a fraction of the possible combos that Margit can pull out of his backside. The only super fast attack was his shotgun, which was only a first phase punish anyway. Get him to phase three, and you can punish in return with the music box, if you picked it up.
Like I said, I didn’t even know Margit had that anti-shield combo at that point. You can’t ‘learn the moveset’ if its hidden to the point it plasters you. And, besides which, what IS there to learn other than the boss has endless stamina and very limited breaks in combos? That’s not ‘learn’ thats ‘designed to catch out pro players, and lol I guess for everyone else’, and that’s [Bleep] Game Design quite frankly.
It’s like blooming Carian Moongrum and their 100% perfect Parry, using a shield that doesn’t have native parry in the first place. Don’t even get me started on NPCs with player models and their flawless projective dodging. It was put into perspective when a Youtuber pitted all NPC invaders against the various Bosses, and they all pixel-perfect dodged Astels Space laserbeam in perfect sync.
I mean, if you’re using a greatshield, he uses it and you learn it. If you’re not, you don’t. This will apply to a new player who dragged a greatshield into their first fight just as much as an experienced one trying their 15th build.
Isn’t it kinda cool that a boss had a move you never knew about? Isn’t that a neat tidbit, like “wow I didn’t expect them to have something so specific, what other weapon/armour/shield specific mechanics are there?”
Not when he’s already a collosal pain in the rear, with so many upsides and virtually no downsides, no. Not particularly, no.
Things like Renalla having summons, Land Octopi being able to eat their own limbs to regain health and spawn new ones? That’s kinda cool. Realising the damn Banished Knights with halberd jump attack is one you have to run from, not just time a dodge-roll because it also has an aoe wind blast at the end, that you can learn from.
Margit is just “Lol, hope you brought cheese, loser.” And that’s not fun.
I have a nightblade khajiit, a dragon knight orc and an altmer necromancer. Well, the orc is actually a scamaz because she’s actually a werewolf, which is what I enjoy playing the most, but the time spent as dragon knight between the transformations makes it less enjoyable, because I really don’t vibe with the class.
I guess I’ll stick with the orc and see if I can minimize my time out of werewolf form and if that fails will try something else. Until my fickle attention span takes me somewhere else. Thankfully monday is an extra day off so I have ample time to decide.
